QUILT SHOW!

Today I am featuring the quilt tops made by

my very talented friends at quilt camp this past weekend.

Kathy completed this top made

with fabric from one of her favorite places.....Fabric Cafe

Judy completed these purrfectly wonderful pillows.

These panels are being created by Joanne.

The beadwork on them are exquisite!

Katrina with the quilt for her new grandbaby.

Cheryl's quilt for HER new grandbaby.

Mary made a whole stack of blocks....

enough for TWO quilts!

Kathy made this stained glass beauty.

Mary made this lovely top.

(in no time flat I might add)

Linda was excited to show us her quilt top purchase that

she made at the Jr. League sale this past weekend.

I think she picked this top up for .50!!!

Born shopper!

Dolly made this terrific tablerunner,

a tree wallhanging and worked on

this strip of names to go with an Alzheimers project.

This creation by Sharon will become a quilt to

grace the bed in her traveling coach.

Linda finally finished her Can of Worms quiltop!

There was a time during the weekend when she really wanted

to throw up her hands and work on something else,

but she perserved and this lovely top was the result!

Last, but not least is this sweet baby quilt made by Kathy.

Don't I have very talented friends?

Design Wall Monday

I've woken up to a GLORIOUS day!

The sun is shining and the birds are singing

and I am sssooooooooooo thankful to live in Phoenix.

I've been watcing with amazement at all of the snow

various parts of the country are experiencing.

While very beautiful to look at from inside

I'm thinking that it would be a BEAR to go anywhere!

Design Wall Monday always seems to sneak up on me!

but, Lucky ME, I have quite the list of unfinished projects

to cull from.  So instead of starting something brand new

today I've pulled this from the UFO pile.

This little project was started years ago in a class

with Loraine Torrence at Quilt Camp in the Pines

heald in Flagstaff Arizona.

We started this design with a blank piece of paper

and had to let our imaginations take over.

Not an easy thing to do!

But once you get started it

is amazing how stimulating and exciting it can be.




Design Wall Monday

at Judy Laquidera's blog

has been prompting me to get creative

and get some projects done!

Thanks Judy!




Here is last week's project finally finished:


I know......It's about time!




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Hello there........it's been awhile

I'm not really sure why I haven't posted lately, but it sure

has been awhile. I guess when I get on the computer I tend

to get distracted by soooooooooo many things.........I love

reading other people's blogs, and I enjoy facebook and I

like looking at quilting sites and maybe learning new things.

Before you know it I've spent ALOT of time on the computer!

AND not very much time WORKING!

Does anyone else have this problem?

I HAVE been busy lately. I"ve finished up QUITE a few projects.

Here are some of them:

This is Margaret's quilt.

I met Margaret about 8 years ago at Quilt Camp in the Pines.

She happened to be staying at the dorms at Northern Arizona University

(this is where the camp was being held) and my son was considering

attending NAU. So I asked Margaret if my son and his friend could

come in her room and have a look at what a real college dorm room

looked like. What a sweet lady. Then and now.

Margaret is 85 and when she came to pick up this quilt she brought

with her an 88 year old friend who was visiting from Colorado.

I can only hope to be in as good shape as these two ladies when I am

that age. Margaret's friend goes to the gym and has a trainer!

I'm pretty sure she is in better shape than I am NOW!

Guess it is something to aspire to!

This is a close-up of Margaret's quilt.

Finally a group shot of my Friday Night Quilters.

What a fine group of ladies!

I think that the last time we were all together was in January!

Everyone looks great in this picture..........except me.........

I have my eyes closed!

Guess I needed the rest.......?

Another finished quilt:

This quilt belongs to Liz and is called Lavender Fields.

The picture does not do this quilt justice.

It was a really sweet little quilt.....pastel and beautiful!

I included this picture of my quilting machine so I could

tell you my sad tale of woe.

Unfortunately during the last month I've started having

some problems with driving this machine! It would get hard

to push in some areas and then fly away in others. It

was REALLY hard to control and because I had to keep such

a tight reign on the handles my whole body would hurt after

only a short quilting session.

So I do what I do best when I have a problem............I avoid it!

Well, not really, but it is what I WANTED to do!

I tried getting out my manual and looking up the problem.

After identifying the problem I tried to make the adjustments

on my own, only making matters worse!

Fortunately APQS has a wonderful tech support and Christine

walked me thru all the adjustments I needed to make.

And after getting Mike's help with a few things that needed a stronger

arm than I have, my machine is working just like new!

PHEW!

What a relief!

Because my quilting machine was not working as well as I needed

it to I just couldn't bring myself to put a customer quilt on and work

on it. So I started pulling out some of MY projects that I could

have on the frames so I could work on the adjustments I needed.

This quilt is Jenny's shower quilt.

It was signed by many people who wished Jenny and Rafael

much happiness in thier marriage.

I gave it to them on their one year anniversary!

Close-up of the center square on which I embroidered their

names and wedding date:

Remember all those tablerunners that I made at camp?

Well.........it was quick to piece them, but then they have

to be finished! So while my quilting machine was being

squirrelly I quilted some of these runners.

Here a just a few.....I think I finished at least 2 or 3 more of these

during the last 2 weeks!

Guess that is it for now!